Wendy Carrillo (M.A. Specialized Journalism '09) won the $10,000 Elfen Foundation Social Justice Award for a short documentary she wrote, filmed and produced about Homeboy Industries Inc., the Los Angeles-based gang intervention and rehabilitation program

Communication professor and director of the Master of Public Diplomacy program Nicholas Cull co-authored "Projecting Empire: Imperialism and Popular Cinema," the first major study of imperialism and cinema in more than 30 years

USC Annenberg faculty and doctoral students will play an important role in the annual Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication Convention held Aug. 5-8 in Boston. Dean Ernest J. Wilson III (pictured) will host Annenberg’s annual ¡Fiesta Annenberg!, a reception at the convention on Thursday, Aug. 6

The IJPC Journal, an online academic journal that adheres to the highest standards of peer review, has just published its first volume for Fall 2009

School of Journalism Director Geneva Overholser said during a July 21 Hammer Museum forum there may be fewer newspapers in the future, but they will continue to play an important role in informing citizens

Journalism professor and director of USC's Center on Public Diplomacy Philip Seib wrote an op-ed for the Huffington Post on July 22 titled "Toward a More Imaginative U.S. Public Diplomacy," which discussed how the United States can improve its reputation throughout the world

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy at the Annenberg School kicks off its 2009 Summer Institute in Public Diplomacy on Sunday, July 19. Now in its fourth year, the Summer Institute is an intensive two-week course designed to immerse participants into the increasingly critical study of public diplomacy by combining traditional classroom instruction with collaborative hands-on exercises

The USC Annenberg School for Communication today remembers the life and legacy of anchorman Walter Cronkite, who left an extraordinary mark on journalism and is the namesake of the USC Annenberg Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism